Importing From Another Comments Plugin - Not Sending Notifications

[crankybrett]

I am trying to migrate 532 subscribers from Postmatic to STCR. Manual subscriptions work perfectly, but imported subscriptions don't trigger email notifications despite appearing identical in the admin.

What We've Done:

1. Populated these three tables:

• wp_subscribe_reloaded - 532 entries with email, post_id, datetime, status='Y'
• wp_postmeta - Created _stcr@_email entries matching subscription data
• wp_subscribe_reloaded_subscribers - Unique subscriber entries with proper salt/unique_id

2. Fixed data formats:

• Converted Postmatic confirmation IDs (postmatic_xxx) to STCR MD5 format
• All status values set to 'Y'
• Used proper datetime formats

3. Verified data integrity:

• Imported subscriptions show up correctly in STCR > Manage Subscriptions
• Display as "All Comments" status (identical to working manual subscriptions)
• Database entries match format of working manual subscriptions exactly

The Problem:

• Manual subscriptions → notifications work immediately
• Imported subscriptions → no notifications sent
• No errors in logs, all data appears correct

Is there an internal STCR process/hook/metadata that only gets triggered during the normal signup flow? What makes a subscription "notification-ready" beyond the database entries we've populated?

Environment:

• WordPress 6.8.1
• STCR version 240119
• WP Cron disabled (Pagely hosting uses different process)
• Manual email sending works fine